It seems to have been a long time since I reached a milestone cache – My 4,000th cache was the first ‘Meet the Mega Committee’ event we held back in January 2016, over three and …
Read the full story »September, and Hyke around Hykeham time, and no purple stall to sell stuff to raise money at.
Lincoln is about 90 miles away so can be a boring journey especially as most of it is the …
Frying Pan Rock is part of a rock outcrop on top of the Chevin overlooking Otley.
As I can see the rock from my window at home it is perhaps a little remiss of me not …
One of the nice things about spending a week camping with a bunch of geocachers is that you meet new people, form friendships with people who were until then just casual acquaintances and get to …
Mega day, we had been working towards this for just over 3 years, and it was here at last… The sun shone, the cachers came, we had two thousand attendees (well we had almost 2,000 …
And then there were no days left, Monday morning I drove up to Newby Hall with my tent and set it up ready for the fun to start…
There were all sorts of jobs that needed …
And then all of a sudden there was just one weekend to go to the Mega – and the weather was awful, blowing a howling gale and pouring with rain – not the weekend to …
Less than 6 months to go to the Mega and it started getting quite busy, we needed to have Committee meetings every 3-4 weeks and I had a flock of log sheep to make and …
I have long wanted to go and see HMS Victory, which resides in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, and one day I mentioned this to Angel78, and she said she wouldn’t mind going to see Victory and …
It’s now getting traditional that the first cache of the year is the Hogmanay event in Huddersfield, and as I have put before the only way I am going to fill the calendar grid for …
2017 was pretty much like 2016 in that I only got three more smileys in the year after the Mega (as opposed to 160 or so I got from Essex mega to the end of …
Every Autumn since the mid 80’s I have spent a weekend with Friends in a caravan park at Hunstanton, Norfolk.
This year, the 30 somethingth time we have done this was different, in that we were …
After the Devon Mega things got back to normal, no caching trips, just events.